Tag: crime brief

A fight between friends during a soccer match turned into a disorderly conduct report with University Police.
Two friends got in a fight during a soccer game on Jan. 17. After one of the friends scored a goal, he celebrated by running over to his other friend, a 21-year-old student, and squeezing his stomach, according to a University Police report.
The student didn’t like being touched, so he reciprocated the gesture by pinching his friend’s stomach. His friend then put the student in a headlock.
When the student had difficulty breathing, he grabbed his friend’s leg and the two men fell to the ground. They then continued the soccer game,… Read more

There could be $4,000 of damage to the ‘Shoe after about 200 people forced their way in to celebrate Ohio State winning the National Championship, according to an estimate from the building coordinator for Ohio Stadium.
The group snapped a padlock in half when they broke in a gate at South Stands at about 1:45 a.m. on Tuesday after the title win. The approximately 200 people who made their way into the stadium were part of a larger mob that was “held at bay by police using crowd control tactics,” according to a University Police report.
The group made their way to the goal post at the south end of… Read more

There were various arrests during the Mirror Lake jump this year, including one incident where a student tried to take a police officer’s hat.
There were at least three reports of disorderly conduct, three thefts and one offense involving underage persons at Mirror Lake last Tuesday and early Wednesday during the Mirror Lake jump.
A 20-year-old male student was arrested for offenses involving underage persons on Nov. 26 at 12:20 a.m. He was taken to Franklin County Correctional Center, according to a University Police report, and his case was still open as of Wednesday evening.
A 22-year-old female student who was suspected of being under the influence of alcohol was… Read more

Criminal trespassing
Two men tried to climb a fence and get into Ohio Stadium on Tuesday at about 1:30 a.m.
When a police officer approached the two as they were trying to hop over the fence on the west side of the stadium, one of them jumped down and joined someone on the outside of the stadium, while the other one joined a fourth person who was already inside the stadium. The two on the inside ran south through the stadium, according to a University Police report.
The officer had one of the people on the outside call the two who had ran through the stadium.
They reached the two… Read more

A man who was previously arrested after he was caught living in Baker Systems Engineering appears to have returned.
A female staff member reported criminal trespassing at Baker Systems on Friday at about 12:30 p.m., and officers dispatched to the area found clothes in an unlocked locker and a court notice that belonged to a man who was previously warned against trespassing in OSU buildings, according to a University Police report.
The report notes that the man was previously arrested in early October at Dreese Lab — the Department of Computer Science and Engineering — for trespassing. Some of that man’s personal belongings were found in a locker when he… Read more

Rape
A female staff member reported a rape in a South Campus residence hall.
The incident occurred Oct. 17 at about 4:30 p.m., but wasn’t reported until the evening of Oct. 22.
Ohio State Police Captain Eric Whiteside said the investigation is ongoing and he couldn’t provide any more information. He said a public safety notice wasn’t issued because the police “have very limited information … and that was factored into the decision.”
Whiteside later referred The Lantern to University Police’s timely warning policy.
Public safety notices are issued when crimes occur that are considered to be a concern or a continuing threat to the OSU community.
There have been… Read more

There were 12 reports of open container and two reports of offenses involving underage persons on Saturday afternoon.
The incidents were reported in the parking lots of Ohio Stadium, at the French Field House and in the parking lot of St. John Arena and Buckeye Lot. The incidents took place from approximately 12:45 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., which is when Ohio State’s homecoming game against Rutgers started.
Tailgaters are not permitted to have open containers of alcohol by state and city laws.
A 19-year-old man was also arrested Saturday at 5:40 p.m. near the Journalism Building and charged with prohibited acts, offenses involving underage persons and criminal damaging/endangering.
There was… Read more

A 28-year-old man who wasn’t supposed to be in any Ohio State buildings was arrested on campus for criminal trespassing.
A professor became suspicious when he heard someone trying to operate a lock on a rarely used door in Baker Systems Engineering on Saturday at about 3 p.m. When a man entered, the professor approached him and the man left, according to a University Police report.
The professor later found out that one of his peers has installed a camera in the Baker suite — which has offices, a kitchen and a central lobby area — to capture the man entering the building. The two reviewed the video and found… Read more

A University Police officer reported that a man obstructed official business after the officer thought he was acting suspiciously.
The man was walking on Woodruff Avenue, away from Ramseyer Hall, and turned onto High Street at about 10:30 a.m. on Sept. 19. He was carrying a backpack that appeared “nearly full,” which the officer thought was suspicious because he was an older man and the officer noticed that he didn’t normally see older men walking around with backpacks, according to a University Police report. He decided to follow the man because there had been an increase in thefts at Arps Parking Garage, near where the man was walking.
The man… Read more

Police confiscated a handgun from a man not affiliated with the university after an Ohio State football game on Saturday.
Officers first noticed the man at about 7 p.m. when he was carrying a traffic cone through the Neil Avenue Parking Garage, according to a police report.
They saw him carry the cone onto an elevator and later, when they saw him riding in the passenger seat of a car that was on its way to the garage exit, they asked the driver to stop. The man said he picked the cone up near Ohio Stadium, and the officers asked him where he had put it after carrying it onto… Read more